Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Dairy-Free Pizza!

I've been a cookbook reviewin' fool lately, so it's no wonder that I just now got time to make something from my awesome review copy of Go Dairy Free by Alisa Marie Fleming. She graciously sent me her book (along with a copy of My Sweet Vegan by Hannah Kaminsky) last month, but it's so full of wonderful information that I've just now gotten to the recipe portion.

As my first taste from Go Dairy Free, I chose to make the Thai Chick-Un Pizza:

Now, this may sound familiar to ya'll fans of Dreena Burton. The recipe was adapted from her book, Eat, Drink, & Be Vegan. That's the lovely thing about Alisa's book — it's a combo of original and adapted dairy-free recipes from popular cookbooks. Since I still don't own Burton's book (I know, bad vegan!), I was so excited to see this recipe. I've heard plenty of raves about it, and all the praise was spot on.

This hearty, exotic pizza features a spicy peanut sauce in lieu of traditional tomato sauce. Smushed garbanzos, red bell pepper, pineapple chunks, green onion, and mung bean sprouts (that I sprouted myself!) top the rich sauce. And of course, I liberally applied a dose of sriracha on top of all that.

The Thai Chick-Un Pizza is just one of many delicious dairy-free recipes in Alisa's book. Besides delicious entrees, Alisa includes recipes for sweetened condensed "milk," sliceable Swiss-style cheese, and homemade coconut butter. And she includes a wealth of information on the reasons and health benefits of going dairy-free.

Her book is so worth checking out! Even though, I started with an entree, I can see this book becoming a resource for information on how to make my own vegan cheese and milk substitutes. Even non-vegan lactose-intolerant folks would gain loads of info from Alisa's book.

14 comments:

I don't have Go Dairy Free, but I do have all of Dreena Burton's books and they are fantastic! I think you'd like them, too. That pizza has been high on my list of recipes to try for some time, but I haven't gotten there yet.

oooh, i love dreena's thai pizza, so i know we'd love alisa's, too. it looks super stellar, Bianca - and i love that her book has so much to offer. making my own cheezes at home would be the best! and the next chace you get you should pick up dreena's cookbook - it rocks some serious socks (and she posts a lot of her recipes here on her blog, too: http://viveleveganrecipes.blogspot.com/)!

You lucky cookbook-reviewin' fool! My cookbook collection isn't very big, but I do have Eat, Drink & Be Vegan and I love it! You would definitely love it too, it's full of awesome recipes made with wholesome ingredients.

I've got to get a copy of that book! That sounds like a pizza I would love (our homemade vegan pizza is much more conventional). We sprouted some mung beans in the past and didn't know what to do with them! I never thought to add them to pizza!

Coconut butter? That sounds delicious! And peanut sauce instead of tomato sauce is an awesome idea. I'm trying not to buy any more vegan cookbooks (since I usually end up cooking recipes I found online anyway :-P), but I might have to check that one out.

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I'm an 11-year vegan, 21-year vegetarian from the Mid-South, not too far from the muddy banks of the Mississippi River. And that means cornbread, butter beans, and collard greens.
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